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Passord Protected drive in USB enclosure
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:40 pm
by AminAhmadi
Has anyone tried using a password protected drive in a USB enclosure?
is there a brand of enclosure that recognises that IBM type of harddrive password?
The drive works in the laptop, T40, but i haven't found a USB enclosure that could use the drive
Thanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:37 am
by andyP
The password protected drive will not be recognised in an usb enclosure, you will have to delete the pw first in the T40.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:58 am
by carbon_unit
That is correct. The password must be removed before the drive will work in a USB enclosure.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:56 am
by gator
From recent experience, I'll go ahead and say that even with the ultrabay adapter you will be in trouble with the HDD password in place - it wont boot.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:53 am
by AminAhmadi
I knew most of them wouldn't do it but I was hoping some more expensive ones would follow the protocol and acknowledge it.
I can't remove the password so, it seems like this drive stays in the machine until its last breath
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:44 pm
by andyP
If the hard drive is password protected you surely have to enter the pw when starting your T40, in which case you can delete the password set in bios as it is known to you.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:58 pm
by AminAhmadi
I have the user password and I could use the thing is the machine, but I don't have the admin password that is needed to remove the password.
I could change it and all but just can't remove it. which is annoying anyways. I bought the machine used and the previous owner didn't know or remember the admin password. He just had the user password which I got and have been using for a few years now.